Human Geography
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Events, general, Human Geography
‘Lucy’ has her public debut in Houston
One of the most famous fossil finds in anthropology, ‘Lucy’, made a public debut in Houston, Texas today, as part of an exhibit on the cultural heritage of Ethiopia. A […]
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Most Liveable Cities in the World (and least)
The Economist has an interesting article rating the most and least livable cities in the world. Canada and Australia come out ahead on the most and Africa and the Middle […]
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general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments
Epidemiologists Turn to Video Game For Help
Ars Technica (an excellent tech news site, by the way) has an interesting article concerning epidemiologists turning to the game developer Blizzard for help. Blizzard is the developer and publisher […]
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general, Human Geography, Remote Sensing
Spy Satellites to be Used Domestically
This story has been all over the traditional news – the US is opening up domestic use of spy satellites. The news is rather troubling for privacy concerns. As the […]
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general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments
CyArk 3D Heritage Archive
Although this actually launched a couple of months ago, I wanted to point out the CyArk 3D Heritage Archive, which has a great story behind it and touches on some […]
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general, Human Geography, WebMapping
Find Recycling Near You
I ran across this site today via Digg – Find your local Recycling station! I checked our area and the data is rather mediocre at best. It has the commercial […]
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Data, general, Human Geography
Measuring Fine Scale Behavior
University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has done a lot of great work in understanding spatial behavior, and one of their current projects, CAPABLE (Children’s Activities, Perception and […]
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
Mapping the money for the 2008 election
The Federal Election Commission has released its own series of interactive maps on its website that shows the current status of campaign contributions for the 2008 US presidential election (although […]
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Animations of Housing Growth
Trulia Hindsight is an interesting mashup that shows the grow of populations in the US over time. Their intent is to document the creation of every house in the US. […]
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Food Mapping – knowing where your eats come from
I am sitting here catching up on my geography news, and practicing typing on my new OQO Model 02 (more on that later), when I came across an article about […]
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